Young
Designer
Awards

Black
Fashion
Designers

Introduction

Fashion Designers’ and Craft makers’ Young Designer Awards are the brain child of knitwear designer Joanna Marcella.

This not-for profit project was set up to reward exceptionally talented young people between the ages of 9-20 years.

Each young designer is required to create an outfit that will showcase their individual talents. This award enables each designer to express his or her own creativity and imagination. The idea behind the awards is to raise awareness and the profile of cutting edge.

Since 2002 the awards have grown from strength to strength each year and now engage young fashion designers from all cultural backgrounds.

Fashion Designers’ and Craft makers’ Young Designer Awards are the only national awards in the UK that has given young fashion designers, who are still studying for their fashion degrees, an opportunity to showcase in New York Fashion Week and Caribbean Fashion Week, to an audience of international Buyers, Fashion Editors, Press and Celebrities, and work with a team of prominent fashion stylists, hair stylists, make-up artists backstage and the same international models that walk the runway for the noted fashion houses such as Baby Phat, Calvin Klein, Donna Karen, Marc Jacobs, Luella Bartley and Tommy Hilfiger.

Our designers have been catapulted straight from the Young Designer Awards right on to the international fashion stage. This year another talented designer will join them.

Our designers have been given a unique opportunity; New York Fashion Week, Caribbean Fashion Week, as well as, London Fashion Week are very difficult events to be involved in, there is a strict criteria to participate, a long waiting list and fees of thousands of pounds to be paid. Our winners have by-passed all of this by proving they have what it takes to showcase with the crème of world fashion designers.